"Tit for Tat" lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman / GD G C D / C G C D / GD G CD G / CD GEm CD G / There is a little country, not very far from here They don't have crops or money, nor seasons of the year They don't have laws or churches, so how can we explain How they learn to work together out of purely selfish gain? For them the choice is simple, for their lives are not complex Some days they cooperate, some days they defect Cooperation's good for all, defection's good for one And the winners teach their children how to do as they have done In this country there's a fellow, his name is Tit-for-Tat He will never hit you first but he will always hit you back He'll treat you as you treated him the last time that you met And no one's figured how to get the better of him yet A tribe that just cooperates does fine if left alone But one defector in their land would quickly sieze the throne But a land of Tit-for-Tatters is a land secure and strong They do right by each other, and none dares to do them wrong Wherever Tit-for-Tat lives, the Golden Rule is true Do unto Tit-for-Tat as you'd have him do unto you Our world is not so simple, but it should be understood That simple, selfish interest still may serve the greater good